Gunther v. Strachan Shipping Co.

REGAN, Judge.

Plaintiff, George Gunther, employed as a longshoreman, instituted this suit against the defendant, Strachan Shipping Company, his employer, endeavoring to recover workmen’s compensation at the rate of $30 per week for a period of four hundred weeks or, alternatively, $30 per week for a period of three hundred weeks, together with $1,000 for medical expenses, for total *544and permanent or “temporary and total” disability resulting from the effect of an abscess caused by a cut incurred above his left ankle on July 22, 1953, while he was in the act of carrying a four foot crosscut saw…